8 :: What about Bing?

It’s easy to forget about Microsoft and I have to admit, I sometimes forget that Bing Maps even exists. In the back of mind, I keep associating it with ‘the option that companies go to when they don’t want to pay for the Google Maps API’. That’s unfair. So it’s time to investigate it for it’s own merits.

When I check out Bing Maps directly, the feature that makes ooh and ahh is their ‘Birds Eye View’ feature. Evidently it’s only available for only the major cities in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan – and it’s pretty neat.

But there is a cost to looking at life from an angle: roads run through your field of vision: